Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fabulous flower party? Pack the day with fun flower activities and treats for a truly springalicious event!

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.